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  • Own the architecture of Alpaca's event streaming platform and set its 2-3 year direction.
  • Lead the shift from batch to event-driven systems across the company, working with team owners.
  • Shape streaming at scale: fan-out, backpressure, delivery guarantees, and failure modes.

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Europe US

  • Work on the heart of broker-dealer operations: clearing and settlement for US equities and options, ensuring systems are reliable and scalable.
  • Design and build new systems to enable new product offerings and revenue streams, from ideation to deployment.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to maintain system health while prioritizing elimination of issues to protect team free time.

Alpaca is a US-headquartered global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, and more, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries. The team is a dynamic group of 400+ globally distributed members who thrive working from their favorite places around the world, with a culture valuing curiosity, empathy, and accountability.

UK

  • Design and maintain mission-critical brokerage systems, including gRPC microservices, React-based internal tools, and vendor integrations.
  • Lead regional engineering initiatives, support cross-functional projects, and mentor talent on engineering best practices.
  • Act as the operational reliability lead and incident commander during regional business hours to ensure 24x7 platform stability.

Alpaca is a US-headquartered global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and more. We are a diverse, globally distributed team of 400+ members backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier investors.

Americas

  • Build and run the systems behind Alpaca's lending and borrowing products, from APIs to batch pipelines.
  • Own a project end-to-end, from the first conversation to what's running in production.
  • Take your turn on call and fix root causes instead of living with them.

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and more. With 400+ globally distributed team members and backing from top-tier investors, Alpaca is committed to opening financial services to everyone on the planet.

$182,600–$295,350/yr
US

  • Set technical direction for complex, high-impact systems and cross-team initiatives.
  • Lead architecture and design work that improves scalability, performance, reliability, and security.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to connect technical investments to customer outcomes.

LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that helps engineering teams ship software and AI with speed, safety, and control. The company values humility, openness, collaboration, and care, and operates with high trust and transparency.

Global

  • Own the reliability and operational performance of large-scale distributed systems and data infrastructure.
  • Deliver streaming and data infrastructure required by critical product initiatives, maintaining 99.9% availability.
  • Reduce operational maintenance and improve infrastructure self-service and cost accountability.

Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing capital markets onchain and powering decentralized finance. It is a global, remote-first team that secures the vast majority of DeFi and is trusted by major financial institutions.

$180,000–$320,000/yr
US

  • Build and scale distributed systems to move large volumes of customer data efficiently.
  • Develop streaming capabilities for real-time data syncing from webhooks and message queues.
  • Optimize system performance, latency, and multi-region infrastructure.

A marketing technology company building a distributed data platform for efficient customer data movement. They foster a high-velocity startup culture with a strong emphasis on autonomy and engineering excellence.

North America Europe

  • Design and build systems for Corporate Actions and Security Master across global markets.
  • Ingest, normalize, and cross-verify security and event data from authoritative sources.
  • Build entitlement processing and ensure accurate propagation across books and customer-facing systems.

Alpaca is a US-headquartered leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure, offering APIs for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, and more across 40 countries. They are a global remote team of 400+ employees, backed by $400M in funding, focused on open source and diversity.

$140,000–$170,000/yr
US

  • Design and build Go services that transform core banking data into a consistent model for downstream applications.
  • Partner with Profile and data engineers to define extraction points and build APIs or event streams.
  • Enforce data integrity, access boundaries, and schema versioning so core changes don't ripple to consumers.

Kunai builds full-stack technology solutions for banks, credit and payment networks, and their customers. The company has succeeded for over 20 years with a collaborative, creative, and continuous-learning culture.

US

  • Build and operate large-scale CDC and batch export systems that move data across Airbnb's online databases.
  • Shape the architecture of a unified data movement platform that powers Data as a Service.
  • Collaborate with partner teams and leadership to deliver multi-month infrastructure projects reliably.

Airbnb is an online marketplace that connects hosts offering unique stays and experiences with guests seeking authentic connections to communities worldwide. The company has grown to over 5 million hosts welcoming over 2 billion guest arrivals and values inclusion, belonging, and creative innovation.

APAC

  • Architect and ship scalable, mission-critical brokerage systems and APIs.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and engineering standards across teams.
  • Drive operational excellence through monitoring, alerting, and incident response.

Alpaca provides agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and 24/5 trading. The company has 400+ globally distributed members, is backed by $400M, and values curiosity, empathy, and accountability.

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Alpaca
APAC

  • Operate production day-to-day, handling oncall, incident response, postmortems, and follow-ups that close the loop.
  • Own reliability practices by defining SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and strengthening observability across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
  • Ship infrastructure through code in a GitOps workflow while looking after PostgreSQL performance, migrations, HA/DR, and CDC pipelines.

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, and more, serving financial institutions across 40 countries with institutional-grade APIs. The company is backed by $400 million in funding and has a diverse, globally distributed team of 400+ members who value curiosity, empathy, and accountability.

$180,000–$400,000/yr
Global

  • Build high-throughput streaming infrastructure that ingests billions of behavioral events and powers real-time personalization.
  • Own projects from start to finish and shape the technical roadmap for the Streaming Systems team.
  • Work directly with customers to solve their hardest scaling and low-latency challenges.

They build high-throughput streaming systems that ingest and process billions of behavioral events to power an AI agent for marketers. They are a fast-paced, remote-first startup with a 10x revenue growth in streaming products and a culture of high ownership and autonomy.

Global 5w PTO 16w maternity 6w paternity

  • Design and build distributed systems for ingestion, normalization, processing, storage, and delivery of realtime market data.
  • Build and operate streaming solutions handling event ordering, timestamps, duplicates, replay, gaps, and recovery.
  • Lead technical decisions, write clear designs, and mentor engineers to deliver reliable data platforms.

Dune is a blockchain data and intelligence provider making onchain finance observable, serving 130+ chains and 1,000+ industry leaders. We're a tight-knit team of ~50 hardworking people across Europe and US timezones, humble yet ambitious.

India

  • Own architecture health of large-scale distributed systems, including failure modes, capacity constraints, and consistency guarantees.
  • Identify and remediate systemic risks such as single points of failure, unbounded queues, and data-loss scenarios.
  • Work hands-on with Node.js/Go and GCP technologies to prototype solutions and resolve complex failures.

This company operates large-scale distributed systems processing billions of events and messages. Its engineering culture values technical rigor, proactive problem solving, and clear cross-team communication.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Architect end-to-end sheet data platform across transactional stores and lakehouse.
  • Design services and APIs for real-time collaboration and AI agents at scale.
  • Lead petabyte-scale migrations while setting architecture standards and mentoring engineers.

Smartsheet is a SaaS platform that helps teams manage work and increasingly coordinates human teams with AI agents. It has been operating for over 20 years and fosters a culture of innovation, inclusion, and professional growth.

India

  • Own the architecture health of a billion-scale distributed system, including failure modes, capacity limits, and cross-deployment interactions.
  • Approve critical-path designs and hunt gaps like single points of failure, unbounded queues, and missing idempotency proactively.
  • Build the parts nobody else can, prototype risky architectural bets, and ship remediations after serious incidents.

HighLevel is an AI-powered business operating system that gives agencies and SMBs the infrastructure to build, automate and scale. With over 2,000 team members across 10+ countries, HighLevel operates as a global, remote-first organization built for speed and ownership.

India

  • Build and operate core platform components like queues, storage layers, caching, schedulers, and rate limiters.
  • Own architecture, implementation, monitoring, and production reliability for high-throughput distributed systems.
  • Work with Node.js/TypeScript, Go, GCP, Kubernetes, Redis, MongoDB, and other large-scale data technologies.

The hiring company builds and operates platform infrastructure for large-scale CRM, automation, and communication systems, processing billions of events and messages monthly. Its engineering culture emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and high standards for reliability and production quality.

Americas Europe

  • Own the architecture and technical roadmap for customer access to the Trading API, including identity, authorization, and account models.
  • Lead delivery of customer-facing trading applications with real-time market data and secure access systems.
  • Mentor engineers and set the standard for security, safe delivery, and production excellence.

Alpaca is a global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure, providing APIs for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, and more. The company has 400+ employees globally and values curiosity, empathy, and accountability.

$130,000–$170,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Design, build, and operate distributed Go microservices and media pipelines for low-latency, high-availability ingestion.
  • Build and evolve integrations across SIPREC, RTP, WebRTC, WebSockets, and enterprise contact center platforms.
  • Lead projects from architecture through production support and participate in on-call rotation.

Pindrop is a cybersecurity company delivering continuous identity verification across voice, video, and digital interactions. It protects billions of high-risk interactions for leading financial institutions, insurers, and healthcare organizations, backed by 300+ patents.

United States

  • Design and build margin and risk systems for multiple asset classes.
  • Lead real-time risk enforcement and ensure system reliability and correctness.
  • Work with engineering, product, and compliance teams to establish scalable infrastructure.

Our partner is a global financial platform seeking experienced engineers. They value technical ownership and collaboration in a distributed environment.